Redditor notes Chinese model releases slowed after distillation protections

Electrical_Rub_6009 · reddit · 2026-10-14

A Reddit user observes that Chinese AI model releases have slowed noticeably since distillation protections were put in place, speculating the two are connected — anti-distillation mechanisms raise the cost of extracting training signal from frontier models. The post offers anecdote, not data.

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